My Life’s True Story

Ephesians 1:4, 5    Romans 8:16, 17

By Dean Beaty 9/22/08

This is a true story and such a sad tale.

I was a pauper and headed for jail.

The only family I ever had,

Taught me to steal, that was my dad.

He was a murderer,* wanted by the law.

He taught me to lie, that was my pa.

When I broke the law, I had no shame.

Pleasure for self, that was my aim.

We were a pair, my father and I.

I thought we were rich but that was a lie.

We really were broke most of the time.

Wasn’t that great, this life of crime?

Then something happened when I was ‘bout ten.

I had a chance to start over again.

I was adopted by a great king.

Now I was an heir of every thing.

He made me his child and gave me his name.

All gone was the past with all of its shame.

I was set free, I wouldn’t do time.

His eldest son paid for my crime.

Joint heir with him, Jesus’ his name.

On all that is his, I have a claim.

I’ve been adopted, my father is God.

He gave me a new life for one that was flawed.

Ephesians 1:4, 5 “According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (separated unto God) and without blame before Him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to His good pleasure.”

Romans 8:16, 17  “The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we

are the children of God: and if children, then heirs: heirs of God, and joint heirs

with Jesus Christ.”

*John 8:44  “Ye are  of  your father, the devil, and the lusts of your father

ye will do.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,

because there is not truth in him.  When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of 

his own:  for he is a liar and the father of it.”